„To walk attentively through a forest, even a damaged one, is to be caught by the abundance of life: ancient and new; underfoot and reaching into the light. But how does one tell the life of the forest?“
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World
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This seminar focused on the various relationships, causes and consequences of human impact on our earthly environment. The concept of the Anthropocene (from the Greek anthropos = human) provided a framework to consider how we, as architects and inhabitants of the Earth, influence and shape this ecosystem. In the next step, however, the anthropo-scene can be read as just one out of many other scenes or perspectives. This realignment gave us the opportunity to explore architecture from ‚other‘ perspectives than those we perceive as given.
The aim was thus to condense the spectrum of these other perspectives on our environment and to actively expand the human-centred perceptions of architecture. We began by reading texts to understand the Anthropocene, e.g. Erle C. Elli’s ‚Anthropocene. A Very Short Introduction‘, Marianne Krogh’s ‚Connectedness‘ and Bruno Latour’s and Albena Yaneva’s essay ‚Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move‘, only to then combine a self-selected textual focus in the form of a short essay with a practical example from architecture or art.
The seminar took place in the winter semester 2022/23 in the Master’s (1-3) at THN. Image Source: https://retro-futurism.livejournal.com/855551.html